On the Six Practical Issues Affecting the Establishment of"Truthful Confession"in Surrender
As an important circumstance stipulated in the criminal law,surrender is related to whether the parties can be lenient or mitigated when they are subject to judicial discretion.However,due to the lack of concrete conditions for its establishment,there is a great dispute over whether to establish surren-der in different situations in practice.In particular,the identification of"truthful confession"has always been a difficult problem in judicial practice.Issues such as when to make a truthful confession,the boundary of truthful confession,self-justification behavior,and truthful confession after retract the confes-sion may affect the establishment of truthful confession.Moreover,different judicial organs often have dif-ferent understandings of these issues,so in practice,it is necessary to systematically explain and clarify the identification logic of"truthful confession"according to the legislative purpose.
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